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The Benefits of Playing Chess!
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xxxNicolexxx wrote:
raygarrety wrote:
Thanks to raygarrety for that beautiful and thorough exposition of the benefits of playing chess, which is well worth framing! I will just mention that I worked for an 80 year old high level attorney who was an active chess master. Wonderful person as well. He would run off to the chess club during the day and come back to the office to help about 40 lower level attorneys figure out what to do with their cases. While many people his age would be in a rocker staring blankly out a window, he was traveling the world, playing chess, and helping many people and causes. I am positive that chess is a wonderful way to keep your mind young! Many of us just have to remember that not everyone is supposed to be a chess master; we can just back off from all the pressure and just enjoy learning and enjoying this beautiful game (yes, "art disguised as a game"!).
thanks so much nicole...
chess keeps my blood pressure from getting too low
rdecredico wrote:
Wouter_Remmerswaal wrote:
orangehonda wrote:
Unfortunately, chess didn't discipline me to tackle your mighty wall of text.
For my 2 cents, after a rating of 1200 or so (maybe earlier), there's not much chess can teach you except how to play better chess.
That's nonsense. There are always side effects of learning anything that are quite usefull.
How about finding time to think? Being able to concentrate? Skills many do not posses.
All things that can be easily learned in other disciplines that have better payoffs.
Chess is masturbatory and all the rationalization in the world does not change this.
chompman2 wrote:
rdecredico wrote:
Wouter_Remmerswaal wrote:
orangehonda wrote:
Unfortunately, chess didn't discipline me to tackle your mighty wall of text.
For my 2 cents, after a rating of 1200 or so (maybe earlier), there's not much chess can teach you except how to play better chess.
That's nonsense. There are always side effects of learning anything that are quite usefull.
How about finding time to think? Being able to concentrate? Skills many do not posses.
All things that can be easily learned in other disciplines that have better payoffs.
Chess is masturbatory and all the rationalization in the world does not change this.
I thought those remarks were worth thinking about. By the way rdecredico, I've enjoyed some of your posts in the past, but this time you've overreached yourself. I play chess because I find it enjoyable and I realize that it has nothing to do with masturbation, real or imagined. Perhaps our minds work in different ways; I'm beginning to hope so. Keep up the posts.
You have to remember that it's a family site, many of them r actually their moms or dads ventriloquizing.
tonydal wrote:
chompman2 wrote:
tonydal wrote:
Jeez, what a crock (another one of these "aren't we all geniuses?" things)...
Well, I guess I would call that missing the point. You see, I'm trying to be polite.
Well, knock it off. And I'd say you're missing the point, fella.
Btw I play chess cuz it keeps my muscles in tone.
Yea, and you appear to have muscles where others have brains, old chap.
Also masturbation is better than doing it with some hen and writing home about it.
tonydal wrote:
chompman2 wrote:
By the way rdecredico, I've enjoyed some of your posts in the past, but this time you've overreached yourself. I play chess because I find it enjoyable and I realize that it has nothing to do with masturbation, real or imagined.
OK, maybe it's just the inveterate punster in me, but...
Yes, I suppose there must be a but... (Love these posts)
well i still managed to read it quite happily, despite everyone elses moaning about the lack of paragraphs. a fine article.
tonydal wrote:
chompman's gift is his peerless behavior
which he bestows on those in his favor
while the folks he disdains
all have muscles for brains
(yet somehow he maintains his good nature)
tonydal, I'd take my hat off to you if I had one. Great stuff!!
So what you're saying is, chess.com allows me to play with my friends, with benefits?
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bigpoison wrote:
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Wow, that one must have been really good.
Yeah, well, without goldendog making a Caligula reference, it just ain't the same.
Thanks to raygarrety for that beautiful and thorough exposition of the benefits of playing chess, which is well worth framing! I will just mention that I worked for an 80 year old high level attorney who was an active chess master. Wonderful person as well. He would run off to the chess club during the day and come back to the office to help about 40 lower level attorneys figure out what to do with their cases. While many people his age would be in a rocker staring blankly out a window, he was traveling the world, playing chess, and helping many people and causes. I am positive that chess is a wonderful way to keep your mind young! Many of us just have to remember that not everyone is supposed to be a chess master; we can just back off from all the pressure and just enjoy learning and enjoying this beautiful game (yes, "art disguised as a game"!).